"Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird."
"Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues."
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Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raphael Soyer (1981). “Lost in America”, Doubleday Books
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